won't happen. The republican definately won't have a fit about this
one.
larry
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:31:35 -0500, Jim Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Clinton criticizing Bush's foreign policy? I don't think that will
> raise any hackles at all. Nope, not a single hackle.
>
> - Jim
>
>
>
> Larry C. Lyons wrote:
>
> >http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/08/05/clinton_iraq040805
> >
> >Bush rushed into Iraq invasion: Clinton
> >Last Updated Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:11:24
> >
> >TORONTO - Former U.S. president Bill Clinton said Thursday he would
> >have taken the word of United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix over
> >U.S. intelligence reports about evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass
> >destruction.
> >
> >"It's not a question of believing [Blix] over the intelligence
> >agencies, but the intelligence was ambiguous on the point," Clinton
> >said in an interview with CBC's The National.
> >
> >Blix led the UN weapons inspections in the months leading up to the
> >U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
> >
> >His teams found little to support the pre-war assertions by the United
> >States that Saddam Hussein's regime was actively developing and
> >stockpiling chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
> >
> >"I certainly would have believed it enough to put [the war] off and
> >try to build more support," said Clinton, referring to building a
> >consensus among the international community before invading Iraq.
> >
> >"I mean, what was the hurry?" asked Clinton, who was in Toronto to
> >sign copies of his best-selling memoir My Life.
> >
> >Recently, a U.S. Senate committee report criticized pre-war
> >intelligence reports claiming Iraq possessed weapons of mass
> >destruction for being wrong and overstated.
> >
> >Clinton criticized the Bush administration for rushing into war with
> >Iraq, saying the country posed a lesser threat to the U.S. compared
> >with four other international hotspots.
> >
> >He accused the Bush administration of putting too much focus on Iraq,
> >saying it diverted resources from the top threat to the U.S.: al-Qaeda
> >and its leader Osama bin Laden.
> >
> >As an example, he spoke about the recent terror alert indicating a
> >possible threat, based in part on four-year-old intelligence, to five
> >financial institutions in the U.S.
> >
> >"Who's the threat from? Iraq? Saddam Hussein? No, from bin Laden and
> >al-Qaeda," he said, adding that the U.S. only learned of the threat
> >from Pakistani intelligence.
> >
> >"Why did we put our number 1 security threat in the hands of the
> >Pakistanis with us playing a supporting role, and put all of our
> >military resources in Iraq, which I think at best was our number 5
> >security threat?
> >
> >"How did we get to the point where we got 130,000 troops in Iraq and
> >15,000 in Afghanistan?"
> >
> >Clinton said the absence of a peace process in the Middle East, the
> >conflict between India and Pakistan and their ties to the Taliban, and
> >North Korea and its nuclear program all posed greater threats than
> >Iraq.
> >
> >Written by CBC News Online staff
> >
> >
> >Copyright © 2004 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - All Rights Reserved
> >
> >
>
>
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